Sentence recognition in native- and foreign-language multi-talker background noise.
Van Engen Kristin J, Bradlow Ann R·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Studies of speech perception in various types of background noise have shown that noise with linguistic content affects listeners differently than nonlinguistic noise [e.g., Simpson, S. A., and Cooke, M. (2005). "Consonant identification in N-talker babble is a nonmonotonic function of N," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 2775…